Thursday, June 09, 2016

Glenn Reynolds has written a piece
that explains quite a bit about how Donald Trump has managed to
attract so much support:

[W]hen "respectable" people won't
talk about things that a lot of voters care about, the
less-respectable will eventually rise to meet the need. That's what
Trump's doing. And a lot of people are cheering him on not so much
because they're fans of Trump personally as because they're happy to
see someone finally stand up to the PC bullies.

This is
understandable, but, Trump, an enemy of freedom of speech, is merely
being opportunistic. The antidote to leftism being packaged as
politeness is not thuggery packaged as frankness. I hope we don't have
to learn this the hard way, in the form of an unpredictable
despot-at-heart in the Oval Office.